(Deutsche Welle) The trial of a 31-year-old Islamist from Russia who allegedly planned a bomb attack in Berlin began on Thursday.
Federal prosecutors accuse Magomed-Ali C. of planning the attack, most likely on a shopping center in the north of the capital, with an accomplice, Clement B.
Magomed-Ali C. allegedly stockpiled large amounts of the explosive known as TATP in his Berlin apartment and was planning to build an explosive charge before he was arrested in August 2018.
The attack would have “resulted in a climate of fear and insecurity,” Chief Prosecutor Malte Merz said.
Planning began in mid-2015 and ended in October 2016 after both men became aware of police investigators closing in on their activity.
